Fantastic sci-fi recollections there, I'm not sure I'll watch ET the same again, thinking of a six year old running for the hills..."Jedi" was my first encounter with Star Wars. I was too young for the others. I was three weeks old when ANH premiered. My "addiction" began when my mom bought me my first action figures, a Jawa and a Sandpeople, back then in November 1982. This caught my attention and since I was into everything space themed I wanted to know more. When my aunt provided me with the first articles on the movies I was hooked. When "E.T." was announced I wanted to watch it at all cost. However, this was the first time I was watching a scifi flick at the theatre (before that I was used to "The Rescuers", "Cinderella" etc. ). The theatre was dark and the sound was very loud. When "E.T." was running from Peter Coyote, screaming like hell, I did the same and left the building as fast as possible. That one scene was just too much for a six year old brain to handle and put an end to watching "Jedi" at the theatres before it even premiered at my home town.
However, I quickly found a suitable alternative which helped me overcome my troubled youth: "Battlestar Galactica" (and "Buck Rogers"). In summer 1983 the first German television broadcast a series of scifi movies in conjunction with the launch of "Jedi". Among them were classics like "The Black Hole" and "Logan's Run". They showed "Buck Rogers" on a Friday evening, the making of "Jedi" on a Monday afternoon and "Mission Galactica: The Cylon Attack" on a Saturday night (the second movie version of the series, cobbled together from "The Living Legend" and "Fire in Space"). I was completely blown away by the VFX, the Cylons and Dirk Benedict. I resembled him quite a bit which made him the ideal role model, and when I learned that BSG was a WEEKLY SERIES I had to watch every episode when they were shown on Dutch TV. So I became a Galactican.
Saturday evening held the slot for Buck Rodgers here in the UK, but do not really remember when Battlestar Galactica the original series aired, although I do seem to remember mid-week evening showing of Galactica 1980.
...and good tip there, laminating parts with spare, rather than folding them over - like that
